When the browser opens a standard HTML welcome page appears. In the new design, a mouse click takes the user to the legal text ‘’Your Rights’’, which explains the Firefox license conditions, and also contains user information about optional web services not licensed to Mozilla's MPL.

No details are available yet, but according to Anderson, the first version of the modified Firefox EULA will appear in the Ubuntu version of the browser. In his blog, Anderson gives special thanks to Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, for finding a solution. Red Hat and Fedora developers also helped. It’s likely that similar problems with other distributions can be resolved in the same way.

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Before Ubuntu users can run the Firefox open source browser, they will henceforth need to accept extensive licensing terms. According to Mark Shuttleworth, the terms were imposed by Mozilla Corporation.